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‘PUTTING A TARGET ON MY BACK’: Tim Pool Explains Why He’s Suing the Kamala Harris Campaign for Defamation

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Podcaster Tim Pool filed a defamation lawsuit against Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign Thursday. Pool says he has faced an increase in death threats and that suspicious people have been monitoring his place of business, two developments he finds alarming after two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump. “It’s putting a target on my back for things I don’t believe and things I actually argue against,” Pool told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. Pool’s lawsuit focuses on one specific post on the social media platform X…

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Alex Jones Loses By Default In All Sandy Hook Defamation Lawsuits

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<p><em>This article is part of <a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe”>TPM Cafe</a>, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at <a href=”https://theconversation.com/alex-jones-loses-sandy-hook-case-but-important-defamation-issues-remain-unresolved-171914″>The Conversation.</a></em></p> <p><a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook.html”>A Connecticut judge has found Alex Jones, a well-known media personality, liable</a> in the defamation claim brought against him by parents of 6- and 7-year-old children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre for falsely claiming they were accomplices in faking the murders of their own children.</p> <p>Like <a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/alex-jones-lawsuit-sandy-hook.html”>an earlier decision in a Texas court</a> brought by different parents, the court entered a “<a href=”https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=460″>default judgment</a>,” which means that…

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